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POPULAR AUSTRALIAN YOUTH AUTHOR VISITS PORTUGAL IN APRIL
Portugal will be receiving the visit of Australian youth author Richard Tulloch, still unpublished in the country, from 14 to 17 April 2008.
Richard Tulloch is one of Australia's most prolific and popular writers of books, plays, film and television for young audiences. His television series, which include 150 episodes of the phenomenal BANANAS IN PYJAMAS, have reached an audience of hundreds of millions around the world. In 1998 he won his third Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE award for his play BODY AND SOUL and was also nominated in America for the prestigious Hollywood 'Annie' award for his screenplay for the animated feature film FERNGULLY II: THE MAGICAL RESCUE.
Of his 60 children's books, many of them published in a number of languages, Danny in the Toybox, Being Bad for the Babysitter, Cocky Colin and the Barry the Burglar series were nominated by children for KOALA awards as their most popular Australian books of all time.
His most recent titles, WEIRD STUFF, FREAKY STUFF and AWESOME STUFF, have been very popular.
His 50 plays for young audiences have been performed in many countries. He has also done stage adaptations of plays by Oscar Wilde and Paul Jennings.
Over the past ten years he has performed his ever-changing show Story Man more than a thousand times in theatres, libraries and schools in the USA, Europe and Australia. He has performed in the Scottish International Children's Festival in Edinburgh, the Vancouver International Children's Festival, in international schools and teachers' conferences in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and in many Australian festivals.
He is a qualified lawyer and teacher (B.A., Ll.B., Dip. Ed. Melbourne University), and has taught numerous creative writing classes for children and for adults at the Centre Europeen d'Ecriture Audiovisuelle in Paris, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, the University of NSW, Thammasat University in Bangkok and Unitec in New Zealand.
Richard also writes travel articles for the Sydney Morning Herald (link to recent article below) and hopes to take advantage of his stay in Portugal to gather material for an article on the country.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/the-netherlands/wandeling-the-netherlands/2008/01/10/1199554819716.html
While in Portugal, Richard will be speaking to students at St Dominic's International School (14 April) and at the International Preparatory School (15 April). He will be available for meetings with Portuguese publishers, interviews etc.
For more information on Richard Tulloch’s visit, please contact
Carmen Costa, Cultural Relations, Australian Embassy Lisbon